Background knowledge and the State of the Union address
According to Politico’s Byron Tau, President Barack Obama’s State of the Union address on Tuesday was written at an eighth grade reading level. Eve...
Category: reading
Kindles + Choice = Reading the classics
My decision this semester to focus my Kindle project on voluntary reading (rather than teacher-assigned reading) is starting to pay off. Out of my Advisory cla...
Octovo sleeves give Kindles some swag
Here’s a secret: Teenagers like to read. They really do. It’s just not cool enough, especially in public. I mean, how uncool is it to be 14 years o...
Improvements to my English class
January is a great time to make changes. After all, most students completely forget about school over Winter Break. Teachers can take advantage of that amnesia...
Fall Semester Reflection #1: Reading
It’s Finals Week, so that means that instead of helping my students with their exams and projects, I’m thinking about ways to improve my teaching n...